origins of existence Quotes

We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.

If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that - when even nothing did not exist. Suddenly, when nothing came into existence, could one really say whether it belonged to the category of existence or non-existence?

I never asked to be born in the first place.

The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

The word is the making of the world

We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?

Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

Let's go back, back to the Beginning.

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.

Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.